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Chinese Prisoners ‘Forced’ to Play Video Games ...

  • 07-08-2011 8:41pm
    #1
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭


    .... As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells.Liu says he was one of scores of prisoners forced to play online games to build up credits that prison guards would then trade for real money. The 54-year-old, a former prison guard who was jailed for three years in 2004 for "illegally petitioning" the central government about corruption in his hometown, reckons the operation was even more lucrative than the physical labour that prisoners were also forced to do...

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam

    thats mental, lol.


Comments

  • #2
    blackdog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackdog2


    That is old news


  • #3
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    ...jailed for three years in 2004 for "illegally petitioning"...
    Thats just as bad in craziness.


  • #4
    ardinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭ardinn


    I have friends who used to play WOW 24/7, they would have like shady drug deals going on in the game, they would pay for credits through paypal and then some guy would meet them in a certain place in the game to make the exchange!

    I never thought it would equate to slave labour in china though!!!

    But I imagine, the profits could be extremely high!
    images.jpg
    http://slaneyfishing.com




  • #5
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Its better than getting arse raped I suppose


  • #6
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Its better than getting arse raped I suppose

    Is that a feature?


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  • #7
    thebigbiffo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Its better than getting arse raped I suppose

    :confused:

    impossible


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